It features the chant "voum rooh ho" "to charm the snakes to conjure / the dead," as well as things like "the madness that remembers / the madness that shouts / the madness that sees," which in turn makes "two plus two equal five" and the "forest meow." The speaker imagines his entire race destroyed
It features the chant "voum rooh ho" "to charm the snakes to conjure / the dead," as well as things like "the madness that remembers / the madness that shouts / the madness that sees," which in turn makes "two plus two equal five" and the "forest meow." The speaker imagines his entire race destroyed by a macula, and imagines the "sun with a dry cough / the sun spitting blood." In the first paragraph, the speaker repeats the phrase "Go away!" Much of it is set "in this inert city," and the speaker repeatedly invokes the phrase (*) "at the end of dawn." In the middle part of this work, there is a poem in honor of L'Overture, as well as a vision of Emperor Josephine standing on a Negro's back. For 10 points, name this long poetic work written when its author revisited Martinique, by Aime Cesaire.  [Ike]
It features the chant "voum rooh ho" "to charm the snakes to conjure / the dead," as well as things like "the madness that remembers / the madness that shouts / the madness that sees," which in turn makes "two plus two equal five" and the "forest meow.
{Notebook} of (a) {Return} to {my Native Land} or {Cahier d'un retour au pays natal}